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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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A rendering of the new Clay Studio on North American Street in Kensington, expected to open in Spring 2022. (DIGSAU Architects)
Arts & Entertainment

Clay Studio nearing its $14.5 million move to Kensington

The ceramics center will vacate its Old City home of 41 years for a $14.5 million custom-designed building for artists and community members.

4 years ago

A photo collage of Rosalee McDonald and Virginia Thomas and their children shared by their friends and relatives after a devastating fire took their lives.
Community

A basketball phenom and Fairmount’s ‘mayor’: Philly grieves children lost to fire

Basketball coach Andre Wright remembers Destiny McDonald and Quintien Tate-McDonald as team players with talents that will be missed in the community.

4 years ago

A tire fire in Southwest Philadelphia sends plumes of smoke across the city.
PlanPhilly
Community
Eyes on the Street

If you don’t trust the air you breathe, keep reading

A new city advisory group needs the input of people who know what it's like to smell a tire fire outside or breathe in highway fumes day in and day out.

5 years ago

The interior of Càphê Roasters
Community
Billy Penn

Càphê Roasters highlights both Vietnamese and Philadelphia culture in Harrowgate

“We want people to spend time here,” said co-owner Thu Pham of the Kensington Avenue space. “We want them to talk to us and get to know our stories.”

5 years ago

Philadelphia sanitation workers on their route. (Image courtesy of Philadelphia Streets Department)
Community

Philadelphia wants you to recycle your (clean) Amazon boxes

The city of Philadelphia is urging people to get back into recycling and learn the tips and tricks to make the effort worthwhile.

5 years ago

The Winter Street Greenway and Rob Stuart Memorial Dog Park (Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation)
PlanPhilly
Community

How an activist family got a new park built in Logan Square

Logan Square activists succeeded in their efforts to build the newly opened $1 million Winter Street Greenway and Rob Stuart Memorial Dog Park. Here’s how they got it done.

5 years ago

From left, Revs. Jeanette Davis, Robert Collier Sr. and Greg Holston show ceiling damage in the Waterview Recreation Center's Gym in Northwest Philadelphia. (Abdul R. Sulayman/ The Philadelphia Tribune).
Community

Black clergy group promises to put pressure on for recreation center redevelopment

The Black Clergy of Philadelphia and Vicinity is not happy with the state of disrepair throughout the city's parks and recreational centers.

5 years ago

Jessica Pointer (L) accepts a gift, a plant stand, from Lisa Ivery (R) on a sunny, fall morning.
Community

How Buy Nothing takes giving and receiving to a different, more neighborly level

Online Buy Nothing groups grow more popular by the day. Members say the gift-economy has brought them closer than ever before.

5 years ago

Listen 4:36
People wearing face masks play a board game
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Planning for a $15 million rec center begins with board game in Fairhill

A board game is helping Philadelphia officials determine the future of a public works project in a community often left out of public decision-making.

5 years ago

Listen 3:52
David Rose on the steps of the Black Writer’s Museum
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

What Germantown can learn from Lauryn Hill

David Rose moved to Germantown in 2016 to take care of the Black Writers Museum. As he prepares to leave Philly, he reflects on the lessons he learned.

5 years ago

Dr. Ala Stanford speaks glowingly of Pastor Glen Spaulding of the Deliverance Evangelistic Church, who provided the space for her new medical clinic in North Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

The Black Doctors Consortium’s primary care clinic in North Philly is now open

The clinic will offer primary care and behavioral health in North Philadelphia, with an emphasis on preventative medicine.

5 years ago

A photo of the Philadelphia skyline taken in October, 2021
Community

‘Mad or nah?’: Philly residents react to news that city is hyper-segregated

P.O.C, a partner in WHYY’s News and Information Community Exchange, hit the streets to talk with residents about the lack of desegregation in Philadelphia.

5 years ago

Listen 5.19
University City Townhomes
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Philly Council advances bill to stop demolition of University City Townhomes

A contested bill designed to preserve an affordable rental housing complex in West Philadelphia moved one step closer to becoming law on Tuesday.

5 years ago

File photo: The former PES refinery site in South Philadelphia on June 2020. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Urban Planning

The Bellwether District: Hilco’s new brand for the old PES refinery complex in South Philly

The 1,300-acre South Philadelphia property will become an economic engine for the city in years to come, says the company leading its makeover.

5 years ago

Cast members (from right) Azzari Myers, Eva Vanterpool, Carmi Jackson, and Jamall Phillips rehearse ''Town Hall: Resolution 50'' in Camden’s Northgate Park. The play about environmental racism in Camden will be performed this Saturday, in the park
Arts & Entertainment

Camden teens take on environmental racism in a new play

The play, called “Town Hall: Resolution 50,” posits that the reason Camden has so many infrastructure and environmental problems is because Camden is predominately Black.

5 years ago

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